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Brazilian Alliance for Sustainable Seafood (BASS)
by Executive Secretariat - provisory (Partnership)
The Brazilian Alliance for Sustainable Seafood intends to work collectively to achieve the main objectives and goals established by the group, which are:
- To develop a knowledge-base about seafood (wild capture fisheries and aquaculture production) sustainability in Brazil
- To provide seafood sustainability outreach to a diversity of Brazilian audiences;
- Stimulate sustainable entrepreneurship and other socially impactful initiatives;
- Incentivize corporate buyers to look for sustainable seafood and develop a corporate culture that drives changes in the supply chain;
- Establish opportunities for meetings and discussion forums;
- Identify, publicly recognize, and reward initiatives and actors for sustainable practice.
Progress reports
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
Type of commitment
  • Science-based fisheries management plans
  • Eco-labelling, traceability, certification programmes
August/2017
Brazilian Alliance for Sustainable Seafood Strategic Meeting
September/2017
Fisheries and Aquaculture Convening for Sustainable Seafood
Staff / Technical expertise
all members
In-kind contribution
time and expertise
Basic information
Time-frame: May/2015 - undetermined
Website
Partners
Monterey Bay Aquarium (NGO), Instituto Anima (NGO), Unimonte (Academic Institution), AquaRio (Private Sector), CeDePesca (NGO), Instituto de Biologia - UFRJ (Academic Institution/Scientific Community), Instituto de Pesca/Agencia Paulista de Tecnologia do Agronegocio (Government/Scientific Community), Aquario de Ubatuba (Private Sector), Instituto Argonauta (NGO), Fazenda D'agua Producao e Comercio de Pescado (Private Sector), GLOBALG.A.P. (Other Relevant Actor), Ludmila Damasio (student UFRN/Scientific Community), Fabio Caltabelota (researcher University of Florida/Scientific Community), Andr Ahn (Chef at Clos - So Paulo/SP - Private Sector) , Eudes Assis (Chef at Taioba - So Sebastio/SP - Private Sector), Dagoberto Torres (Chef, consultant, writer - Private Sector), Daniele Vila Nova (independent contractor at Brazilian Alliance for Sustainable Seafood/Scientific Community)
Ocean Basins
  • South Atlantic
Beneficiary countries
Brazil
Other beneficaries
Contact information
Cintia Miyaji, PhD, cintia.miyaji@unimonte.br,
Santos/SP, Brazil
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